Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-10-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| -1EC 1dTlSi1u pOitcIs VI So"NASA0Ss
has become so unpopular that spe-
Gil newspaper has been started called
the Anti-Concierge.
"A railroad eighty-six miles long
which runs to the summit OF the Andes
near Lima. Perue. has already cost the
Government $25 600. 900.
| President Diaz has shown special
favors to DR.. Mathilde Montoya, the
first woman to become regular prac
ticing physicians in Mexico
The Austro-Hungarian regulars
and militia are to be supplied with
Manlichor repeating rifles by 1891.
The number required will be 1.2OO. :
600, and the cost will be $4,000. 900
forms. 1t will take the empire ten
years to pay for the weapons.
In the city of Mexico every body
lives over shop. if the house be two
stories. or uses the lower floor for
stabling the horses, quartering the
servants, etc. Even the millionaires
often rent the ground floor of their
swell residences for business purposes.
The English co-operatives have a
bank whose transactions amount to
$50. 600, 900 year. They have 1.4OO
stores, and do business of $3.50. OOO-
600 a year. Their 900, 600 members re-
ceive an annual profit of SIS O)O, 900
Their profits during the past twenty
four years have $50 OOO.OO).
There is firm in Berlin that en-
ploys two hundred girls who manufact-
ure little bundles Of antiseptic dressing
material. with which all German SOL
diers are to be supplied in future, so
that they may be able to dress their
own wounds in the absence of Il surgeon.
The girls are all dressed in white linen
cloaks and are strictly forbidden to
bring victuals or any thing else into
the o I'M where they work.
The results of the survey and last
census of India are that the area of
the Peninsula of Hindostan is 1882.
ga square miles. and the population
253, S91. S21. Although immense tracts
of country are annually cultivated, ac-
cording to the most recent survey TO-
600. 900 acres of land. suitable for cul-
tivatiOn, have not as yet been plowed.
At the same time, 12O. 900. 600 Of acres
are returned as waste land.
Opinion.
The Botanic Garden at Oxford is
celebrate for its collection of aquatic
plants. The colored water lilies are
especially handsome this year. includ-
ing the blue water lily from the Nile
and the red water lily from the Ganges.
The former opens in the day time, but
the latter then remains closed, OPEN
ing ut night. 1T is a pity" says a
recent visitor to the garden. ''that
these floral peacocks do not show their
tails together. IN y Ledger.
-Amesican newspapers are read
here now much more that they former
ly were, and the Mexican people are
becoming somewhat familiar with
affairs in the United States. Still it is
a deplorable fact that the American
and Mexican people know less about
each other than they do about the
principal nations of Europe. whereas
the very cOntiguity of their respective
territories make it desirable and
almost necessary that the reverse
should be the case. Tile 1Wo ReSub-
Tics. CITY Of -Msrico.
-TolstOi says there are three kinds
OF love in Rnssia-elegant love. de-
voted love and active love. Elegant
love is a refined feeling of which one
does not care to speak in a common
way. and SO it is customary to speak
of it only in French. Says he: ut is
an absurd and grotcsque thing to say.
but l am convinced that there have
been and are-in certain circle
many persons. especially women, in
whom the love they feel for friends,
husbands and children would cease the
moment it was forbidden to be cx-
pressed in French
Sir Horace Rumbold. formerly
British Minister to the Argentine Re- /
public, has written q work on that part |
of South America. in which he saws
that bird life on the pampaS. or South |
prairies. is so abundant as
to produce the effect of an open-air |
aviary. Brilliant little creatures,
with red or yellow breasts. cardinals.
and oven-birds dart in and |
out of the grass and bushes in every
while in the higher regions
hawks and kites hover |
over these tempting pre-
serves" All are fearless in the pres
encc OF man. except the winged |
plover, an unfortunate bird. much dis
liked. and described as the spy and |!
scvld of the pampas. 1t has a hand |
some. glossy plumage of lavender and |
black, and shrill. discordant voice,
with which it pursues the sportsman, |
away game. M y